Novelists Quotes

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

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